All posts tagged "autism"
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Brick Life
/ 4 months agoNew Year’s Evolution
Yesterday I saw a post on Facebook by a friend. It was an image of a cat kicking the number “2023”...
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Brick Life
/ 5 months agoJust Get Out
As I’ve mentioned before, this is a year of “lasts.” Two weeks ago, my family, including my aunt and my mother,...
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Brick Life
/ 5 months agoHappy Halloween!
We walk over to my car after taking the required Halloween photos outside our front door, my twenty-year-old profoundly autistic son,...
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Brick Life
/ 6 months agoRaining On My Parade
So yesterday, it rained on our parade. A fundraiser for our non-profit, HomeLife21, HabCore, and Autism MVP at the Dublin...
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Brick Life
/ 7 months agoFirst Lasts
Call this the summer of “first lasts.” My son Justin, who is twenty, profoundly autistic and non-verbal, will graduate from his...
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Brick Life
/ 7 months agoHomeLife21, Autism MVP, and HabCore fundraiser at the Dublin House
Nineteen years ago this fall, I took my toddler to his pediatrician for a scrip for reflux. I walked out of...
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Brick Life
/ 9 months agoThe Long Goodbye
He sits casually on a couch in the hot, humid lounge area of his dormitory, my sixteen-year-old son with mild autism...
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Brick Life
/ 11 months agoBirthday Boy
You’re turning twenty today. I still find it impossible that you now tower over me, but at my 5’1” height, maybe...
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Brick Life
/ 1 year agoYin and Yang: Preparing A Teen With Autism to Head to College
FAFSA. Pell Grant. College Prep company. One hundred and thirty colleges and universities represented. Day habilitation. Support Coordination agencies. Vocational training....
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Brick Life
/ 1 year ago‘Don’t Wait:’ A Brick Mom Shares Her Story of Learning About Her Son’s Autism
When my eldest son was an infant, he rarely slept, and if then for short periods of time. We had such...